Indonesia

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 19, 2015

Indonesian Vice Pres Jusuf Kalla says country may not execute 10 drug smugglers, nine of them foreigners, due to last-minute legal appeals. MORE

Mar. 4, 2015

Indonesia's executions off drug offenders, most of them foreigners convicted of smuggling, are being criticized by allies including France, Brazil and Netherlands; country executed six convicts in January, five of them foreigners, and 10 more may be put to death soon; 64 others have exhausted their appeals. MORE

Mar. 1, 2015

Tupperware parties are popular in Indonesia, where most women stay at home to keep house and raise their children; Tupperware Brands Corp reports sales force there, now about 250,000, made more than $200 million in 2014. MORE

Feb. 20, 2015

Carol Giacomo Editorial Observer warns that Indonesian Pres Joko Widodo's nomination of several officials suspected of corruption to prominent posts represents growing threat to country's Corruption Eradication Commission, known as KPK; contends tensions are growing between country's police and commission and Joko is weakening in face of political pressure; says reducing corruption is essential to Indonesia's growth. MORE

Feb. 17, 2015

Indonesian Pres Joko Widodo rejects several clemency appeals by Australian government on behalf of 2 men convicted of drug smuggling and facing execution; Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, leaders of Bali Nine group, are sentenced to be executed for 2005 attempt to smuggle 18 pounds of heroin into Australia. MORE

Feb. 12, 2015

Conviction and imprisonment of Indonesian businessmen Indar Atmanto, Hotasi Nababan and Bachtiar Abdul Fatah on corruption charges has raised fears of petty rivalries and malfeasance within country's anticorruption agency itself; businessmen, human rights organizations and even government have argued for innocence of accused. MORE

Jan. 30, 2015

Indonesian investigators say black box data shows that French co-pilot Remi Emmanuel Plesel was at controls of AirAsia Flight 8501 when it crashed into sea; Plesel was less experienced than Indonesian flight captain Iriyanto. MORE

Jan. 29, 2015

Surabaya Journal; Surabaya, Indonesia, has become gathering point for families grieving relatives lost in crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, which plummeted into Java Sea, killing all 162 aboard; many families visit city's crisis centers daily in hoping to receive news of 92 victims whose bodies have not been found. MORE

Jan. 28, 2015

Indonesian government officially ends search for bodies of victims from AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into Java Sea in December 2014, killing all 162 people on board; smaller civilian team will continue its own search operation. MORE

Jan. 23, 2015

Indonesian Navy divers retrieve bodies from fuselage of downed AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed in December 2014, killing all 162 people on board; some 115 people are still unaccounted for. MORE

Jan. 21, 2015

Indonesia's top transportation official says AirAsia plane that crashed into Java Sea in December 2014 was climbing at unsustainable speed of 6,000 feet per minute before plunging and killing all 162 people aboard. MORE

Jan. 19, 2015

Indonesia executes six people convicted of drug trafficking, including five foreigners. MORE

Jan. 18, 2015

News Analysis; people of Indonesia have grown weary of Pres Joko Widodo for appointing Budi Gunawan, police general facing corruption investigation, as national police chief and for eliminating fuel subsidies, which cost state tens of billion of dollars a year; moves have cast pall over Joko's promises to be a man of the people and opponent of corruption. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Indonesian search teams recover second black box from AirAsia crash in Java Sea, and also pinpoint location of aircraft's fuselage; search continues for more missing bodies after 48 are recovered. MORE

Jan. 10, 2015

National Search and Rescue Agency says research ship from Indonesia and an American destroyer have both detected pinging from so-called black boxes of AirAsia plane that crashed into Java Sea on Dec 28. MORE

Jan. 9, 2015

Indonesian officials report that search and rescue teams have detected pinging from black box of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea on Dec 28. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

Indonesian Transportation Ministry announces that it is suspending several officials for letting AirAsia Flight 8501 take off from Surabaya, Indonesia; officials say flight did not have all required clearances and that they have put in place regulations requiring airlines in the country to inform pilots of weather conditions prior to each takeoff. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

Dr Djoko Iskandar study in journal PLOS One reports discovery of only known frog to give birth to live tadpoles, known as Limnonectes larvaepartus, on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. MORE

Jan. 3, 2015

Indonesian officials say two large pieces of Air Asia's Airbus A320-200 jetliner that plunged into the Java Sea have been found; also say they have recovered 46 bodies and identified three. MORE

Jan. 2, 2015

Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, says bodies of nine of 162 people aboard Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 have been recovered, and that finding plane could take another week; search for more remnants of flight is postponed due to poor weather conditions. MORE

Jan. 1, 2015

Crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 into Java Sea has raised fears that Indonesia's aviation infrastructure, already considered safety deficient, is struggling to handle increasing popularity of air travel; investigators are still looking for both victims' bodies and reasons for crash. MORE

Dec. 31, 2014

Search and rescue officials say they have found bodies and debris of AirAsia Flight 8501 off coast of southwestern Borneo; cause of the plane's crash is as yet undetermined, and officials suggest it is unlikely that survivors will be found. MORE

Dec. 30, 2014

United States destroyer Sampson is sent to join search for missing AirAsia Flight 8501, as Indonesia expands search area in Java Sea to about 60,000 miles. MORE

Dec. 29, 2014

Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency, says investigators believe missing AirAsia jet Flight 8501 has probably sunk into ocean and warns that Indonesia does not have equipment suitable for underwater search; Malaysia, Singapore and Australia have offered their help in search operation, effort that evokes distressingly familiar mix of grief and mystery after Malaysia Airlines aircraft went missing over Indian Ocean. MORE

Dec. 28, 2014

AirAsia announces that Indonesian authorities are in process of determining whereabouts of Flight QZ8501 after air traffic control lost contact with plane. MORE

Dec. 19, 2014

Indonesian government announces crackdown against thousand of illegal foreign fishing boats that it says is robbing local industry. MORE

Dec. 15, 2014

Dec. 14, 2014

Rescuers are searching for victims of landslide in Indonesia that has killed at least 17 people. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Indonesian police summon Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, chief editor of English-language Jakarta Post, for questioning in connection with published cartoon that depicted radical Islamists in Syria. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Human Rights Watch issues report that reignites debate over practice in Indonesia in which women who wish to become part of police force are subjected to virginity testing to determine their morality. MORE

Nov. 19, 2014

Oct. 21, 2014

Joko Widodo is sworn in as president of Indonesia, completing improbable political rise from hometown mayor to leader of the world's fourth most-populous nation; Joko is first president not to have emerged from country's political elite or to have been an army general. MORE

Oct. 19, 2014

Joko Widodo will be first Indonesian president not to come from political or military elite; he promises a clean, professional government, and rejects longstanding practice of trading support for cabinet seats. MORE

Oct. 9, 2014

Researchers report in journal Nature that paintings of hands and animals in seven limestone caves on Indonesian island Sulawesi may be as old as the earliest European cave art; archaeologists of human origins say the new findings are spectacular and, in at least one sense, unexpected; Sulawesi’s cave art, first described in the 1950s, had previously been dismissed as no more than 10,000 years old. MORE

Sep. 26, 2014

Indonesia's outgoing Parliament unexpectedly passes legislation eliminating direct elections for provincial government, district chiefs and mayors, move denounced by critics as a major setback for the country's democratic transition; legislation stipulates that regional government leaders will now be appointed by local elected legislatures. MORE

Sep. 23, 2014

Four defamation cases in Indonesia have rekindled national debate about 2008 electronic information law under which offenders can be imprisoned for up to six years; law is widely considered blemish on country's mostly successful transition from authoritarian state to robust democracy. MORE

Sep. 19, 2014

Indonesia is saddled with endemic corruption, poverty and shoddy infrastructure, yet its consumers are among world's most optimistic and spend freely; they are uplifted over election of populist Joko Widodo as president. MORE

Sep. 5, 2014

Gov Joko Widodo of Jakarta will officially be sworn in as Indonesia's president on Oct 20 in peaceful handover that is rare in the region; his opponent Prabowo Subianto has conceded defeat, but continues to claim that the election was marred by massive fraud. MORE

Aug. 19, 2014

Rescuers safely recover 13 more people from tourist boat that sank after hitting reef in central Indonesia but are searching for Dutch man and Italian woman who are still missing. MORE

Aug. 18, 2014

Fifteen people are missing after tourist boat sinks in central Indonesia; authorities have yet to determine what caused the sinking. MORE

Jul. 24, 2014

Former army general Prabowo Subianto is challenging results after he was declared loser in Indonesia's presidential election; cites widespread voting irregularities in emotionally charged election that gave populist governor Joko Widodo victory with 53 percent of vote to Prabowo's 47 percent. MORE

Jul. 23, 2014

Joko Widodo, governor of Jakarta who has become a political phenomenon, is declared winner in Indonesia's presidential election; victory completes the improbable ascent of man who grew up in the slums to become the leader of the world's fourth-most populous nation; his opponent, retired army general Prabowo Subianto, rejects results as fraudulent. MORE

Jul. 11, 2014

Political tensions rise in Indonesia as supporters of presidential candidates Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto raise fears about cheating during days of vote tallying; while most respected of polling firms indicate that Widodo has a lead of four to six percentage points, Subianto's campaign suggests polling companies are biased. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

Indonesia's populist presidential candidate Joko Widodo says he appears to have won election over former general Prabowo Subianto, who says it is too early to declare a winner. MORE

Jul. 8, 2014

Former army general Prabowo Subianto is surging in polls before Indonesia's presidential election against Joko Widodo; for a candidate accused of questioning the value of democracy, Prabowo appears to be a highly efficient campaigner. MORE

Jul. 6, 2014

Indonesia's presidential election between Joko Widodo, populist governor of Jakarta, and opponent Prabowo Subianto tightens after barrage of personal attacks; nationwide survey by Indo Barometer survey finds that 13-point lead Joko had over Prabowo before official campaigning began in early June has dropped to 3 points. MORE

Jul. 6, 2014

Travel Q&A with writer Elizabeth Pisani, who discusses traveling around vast archipelago nation of Indonesia. MORE

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General Information on Indonesia

Official Name: Republic of Indonesia
Capital: Jakarta (Current local time)
Government Type: Republic
Population: 234.69 million
Area: 736,000 square miles; about three times the size of Texas
Languages: Bahasa Indonesia (official) English, Dutch, local dialects (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese)
Literacy: Total Population: [90%] Male: [94%]; Female: [87%]
Year of Independence: 1945
Web site:Indonesia.go.id

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